Logging gives you information about what the daemons or services are doing behind the scenes. To turn on
logging in VERITAS NetBackup you must create directories. If the directories exist then all information
relating to a process or service is logged.
For example – if you want to find out why bprd is starting and then stopping, you can create a bprd directory
on the master server. As long as the directory exists we will log information. You can get more information
by increasing the logging level. In NetBackup 3.4 the levels are 0 – 99. In NetBackup 4.5 the levels are 0 –
5. The directories should be created in the following location: /usr/openv/netbackup/logs for UNIX
systems.
For windows you can run netbackup_installdir/netbackup/logs/mklogdir.bat, which will create
all the appropriate directories. If you wish to log information about the media manager processes or services
you can create /usr/openv/volmgr/debug/daemon for the vmd information and
/usr/openv/volmgr/debug/reqlib for requesting information on UNIX systems. On windows systems
you would create the same directory with the appropriate entry like: install_dir/volmgr/debug/daemon
etc. The logging will start when the service starts. Therefore, if the service is doesn’t stop and restart, you
will have to stop the service before logging begins.